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Comment by Benjamin_Dobell | Hacker News Reader

Oh, but distributing links with tracking tokens attached is a really great way to mess with sites that track users:

Well, we've had one user who really liked the new content. They viewed it 15,323 times... waaaaaait, damn it!

I habitually remove tracking and other non-essential cruft from shared URLs, for readability and for politeness to my correspondents. I don't think it's polite to associate their IP with my tracked activity.

Do you have any tools to automate that process?

Not really. I use the Uppity extension in Firefox.

So if Uppity shows me:

  http://fortune.com/2017/05/02/donald-trump-wall-street-elite/?xid=gn_editorspicks&google_editors_picks=true
  http://fortune.com/2017/05/02/donald-trump-wall-street-elite/
  http://fortune.com/2017/05/02/
  http://fortune.com/2017/05/
  http://fortune.com/2017/
  http://fortune.com/
  http://www.fortune.com/

Then I pick select the second one from the top, let it load to be sure I got a usable URL, then use that in my email. This is probably ideal, since anything more automated would probably get it wrong often enough that I'd go back to doing just this.

Firefox: Uppity https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uppity/

Firefox: Navigate Up WE https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/navigate-up-w...

Chrome: Up https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/up/iohgglcbddjknne...

(And what is up with those chrome store URLs?)

nice entertainment

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